The Service of God

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 40.

The Service of God.

THE service of God, as required, is very comprehensive, and its demands cannot be met by attending to a few forms and observances. Its standard is the revealed will of God. On this foundation its claims must rest. Whatever comes short of this measure is defective. In all this service supreme love to God is the mainspring. In loving him and by loving him, God is served. Till he is loved, he is not responsibly served. The reason why his service is not found to be hard, is seen in the love with which he is regarded. It is always easy to serve those whom we love, and those who love God as they ought, will not find it hard to serve him as they ought. Here then is the starting-point in becoming the servants of God—love to God. Doing all that he requires, in the case of those who love him, follows as the effect of a cause.—Sel.